New authorization required for mundane activities
MR ZenWiz
mrzenwiz at gmail.com
Mon Sep 28 06:18:25 UTC 2015
On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 7:39 PM, <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 21:37:04 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>>I never use flash drives but
>>"org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount" should allow me to mount
>>one without having to supply a password. Are your polkit settings
>>different?
>
> There is a typo in my other reply, it should read ...
>
> [root at moonstudio ~]# grep "org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount" -A70 /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks2.policy | grep -v description | grep -v message
> <action id="org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount">
> <defaults>
> <allow_any>auth_admin</allow_any>
> <allow_inactive>auth_admin</allow_inactive>
> <allow_active>yes</allow_active>
> </defaults>
> --
> <action id="org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system">
> <defaults>
> <allow_any>auth_admin</allow_any>
> <allow_inactive>auth_admin</allow_inactive>
> <allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active>
> </defaults>
> </action>
> --
> <action id="org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-other-seat">
> <defaults>
> <allow_any>auth_admin</allow_any>
> <allow_inactive>auth_admin</allow_inactive>
> <allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active>
> </defaults>
> </action>
>
>
> <action id="org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-fstab">
> [root at moonstudio ~]#
>
> I don't use USB-sticks, but I suspect
>
> <allow_active>yes</allow_active> </defaults>
>
> does the trick, perhaps a "yes" for the other lines of
> "<action id="org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount">"
> is required too.
>
Here is what mine shows:
3.13.0-57-generic #95-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jun 19 09:28:15 UTC 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS"
$ grep "org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount" -A70
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks2.policy | grep -v
"<description " | grep -v message
<action id="org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount">
<description>Mount a filesystem</description>
<defaults>
<allow_any>auth_admin</allow_any>
<allow_inactive>auth_admin</allow_inactive>
<allow_active>yes</allow_active>
</defaults>
</action>
<action id="org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system">
<description>Mount a filesystem on a system device</description>
<defaults>
<allow_any>auth_admin</allow_any>
<allow_inactive>auth_admin</allow_inactive>
<allow_active>yes</allow_active>
</defaults>
</action>
<action id="org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-other-seat">
<description>Mount a filesystem from a device plugged into another
seat</description>
<defaults>
<allow_any>auth_admin</allow_any>
<allow_inactive>auth_admin</allow_inactive>
<allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active>
</defaults>
</action>
<action id="org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-fstab">
<description>Mount/unmount filesystems defined in the fstab file
with the x-udisks-auth option</description>
So it is pretty much the same as yours.
What bugs me more about this than anything else is that it changed and
I don't know when, how or why, or how to reverse it.
Thanks.
MR
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